Thomas Mann Quotes
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Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.
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War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
[War]
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We are most likely to get angry and excited in our opposition to some idea when we ourselves are not quite certain of our own position, and are inwardly tempted to take the other side.
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We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.
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What a glorious gift is imagination, and what satisfaction it affords!
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What a wonderful phenomenon it is, carefully considered, when the human eye, that jewel of organic structures, concentrates its moist brilliance on another human creature!
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What is uttered is finished and done with.
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What the collective age wants, allows and approves, is the perpetual holiday from the self.
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What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.
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